The next day he drove them to the station where they boarded a train to Fulda via Halle and Erfurt, since the direct route via Helmstedt/Marienborn was closed due to the Berlin blockade.
At first, she felt uncomfortable in his company. Despite his civilian clothes he looked the part of a Russian from a mile away. She threw hurried sideways glances at the other passengers, hoping none of them would consider them a couple, since the last thing she wanted was to be mistaken as a Russenflittchen, a girl who slept with the Russian oppressors.
But the longer the excruciatingly slow train travelled through the Soviet occupied zone, the more she got used to his presence and when the train was diverted to Leipzig where Soviet military police boarded and thoroughly searched all the passengers, she
